An agent argued his commercial dispute for him, and won
Agent acted as a dogged advocate in a commercial dispute and won it.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
Work
Jobs, side gigs and small business · 1,693 ideasClose a $10,000 sponsorship deal from my inbox in about four hours
Creator Alex Finn recounts on a podcast episode that he gave an AI access to his business inbox and told it to answer and negotiate with legitimate companies. Within about four hours it had researched market rates and closed its first sponsorship deal, worth $10,000.
$10,000
I tried Comet on my Amazon Ads and my ROAS went up 120%
He tried AI's new Comet browser on his own Amazon Ads campaigns. He says his return on ad spend went up by 120%.
His partner built the compliance app her CTO had refused, in one morning with AI
A woman working in legal and regulatory compliance needed a small app, a workflow with a form and a validation process. Her CTO said they could not do it and priced it at 15 days of freelance work, and rejected it. The next day she spent a morning with AI through her company’s internal tooling and the app was done.
My Dot found my resume in Gmail and brought back real job listings
PCMag connected all three agents to the reviewer's Gmail and asked them to find his resume and hunt for matching jobs. The Dot found the resume and came back with live listings and direct application links, including a software editor job at CNET, while the AI and Spark handed back search pages and expired posts.
Make me a full presentation from one request, then fix it to my comments
A reviewer asked the AI for a presentation with a single request and no detailed explanation; it produced the deck, and when she commented on how she wanted it to look, it revised the presentation to match exactly.
His agent Vesper runs the whole desk for a paid deeds platform, with 6 real deeds paid across 5 countries
A solo operator in Texas runs DeedSpring, where people get paid $13 to $75 for small real world deeds like leaving art in public or helping a stranger. His agent Vesper runs the desk: recruiting, acknowledgments, checking photo evidence against the posted rules, and payouts through escrow. Six deeds have been paid so far across five countries, and every receipt sits on a public ledger.
I automated our hiring, I just reply yes and it books the interview
Job applications from a Google Form land in his spreadsheet on their own and each one is emailed to him to review. If he replies yes, the applicant gets his scheduling link; once they book they get joining instructions and a reminder an hour before. He runs the business next to a full time job and two kids in diapers, so every message it sends for him counts.
The AI found his TLS bug by reading code and shaking hands with servers
The AI figured out his TLS negotiation truncation bug from code and trialling TLS handshakes, including a post-quantum algo ID collision.
Four AI agents run his newsletter day to day for 9,000 subscribers
His newsletter, close to 9,000 subscribers, is run day to day by four AI agents with set roles: one oversees, one edits and manages, one builds, one dispatches the work. He still approves anything that goes out, and the agents refresh their own context from checkpoints instead of slowly forgetting across days.
Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.